| Price from | — | $1,500/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 4 |
| Spec score · Telemetry Pipeline Software | 7.4 (#20) | 8.7 (#3) |
| Deployment | Listed deployment models are SaaS, self-managed cloud, hybrid, or completely on-premises. | Telegraf Controller is self-hosted as a single binary and runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. |
| Headquarters | The About Us page lists headquarters at One Legacy West, Suite 390, 7950 Legacy Drive, Plano, TX 75024. | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Intended users | DataBahn describes its platform for security, observability, and AI teams, including enterprise data and security teams. | The open source edition is described as optimal for personal, small, and simple data pipelines. |
| Purpose | DataBahn controls telemetry for security, observability, and AI by preparing, governing, and routing data or searching it in place. | Telegraf is an open source agent for collecting metrics from infrastructure, applications, and devices. |
| What it does | DataBahn describes itself as an agentic data control plane for security, observability, and AI that controls telemetry in motion. | Telegraf is an open-source agent that collects infrastructure, application and device metrics and sends them to destinations through plugins. |
